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Santa Claus visited our school on Monday for class photos and family photos. Everyone enjoyed seeing him during this busy time of year.

This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, December 11, 2015.

By: Isaac Buckingham, Carley Johannesen, and Colin Spencer

Madison Noel and Anna MacKenzie display their wind turbine design. The girls won gold medals at the Intermediate Skills Challenge in St. John's.

Members of the "Humber Hood" Robotics team (L-R) back: Rebekah Calbert, Kori Noel, Ryan Miller, Jose Garcia, Myles Calbert, and Makenzy Bishop. Front (L-R): Coel Dumaresque, Ryan Bennett, Max Chrappa, and Emily Murley. The team won third place in their project for the First LEGO league Robotics competition in St. John's held in conjunction with the Intermediate Skills Challenge.

Front: Logan McCarthy (Joseph), Katie McGinn (Mary), and Back: Danyael Jacobs (Shepherd), and Mrs. Jackie George. The students in Mrs. George's class lit the first candle on the Advent wreath.

Mme. Ryan and Mme. O’Dells’ classes lit the
second candle on the Advent wreath this week in chapel.

On Monday, our school hosted the IHMS Scripps
Spelling Bee. We had thirteen students participate in the bee representing
grades four to seven.In grade four
Isabelle Mercier, Caleb Rashleigh, and Reyd Ward; in grade five Simon
Boitsefskii, Clare Coleman, Carly Johannesen, Aria Kazerouni, Alessandra
LeBlanc, and Colin Spencer;in grade six
Isaac Buckingham and Aaron White; and in grade seven Myles Calbert and William
Bennett represented their classes. The overall winner was Isaac Buckingham with
runner- up Isabelle Mercier. Both students are invited to attend the Telegram
Scripps Spelling Bee in St. John’s to be held in February.

On Tuesday, Father Chris celebrated a mass
with the grades seven to level two students in our school chapel. In the
afternoon, Mrs. Coleman and the prayer group held a celebration for the Feast
of the Immaculate Conception at All Hallows Church with kindergarten to grade
six students. It was a quiet time for prayer and song to celebrate Mary.

Last night we held our annual Christmas
concert. The theme for this year was “The Bells of Christmas”. Thank you to Mr.
Graham, Ms. Lewis, Mr. Reynolds and all of our teachers and students for all of
their hard work in preparing the beautiful concert.

Congratulations to the grade six boys’
basketball team who played in the Tiny Titans Tournament last weekend. They
finished first in their division, winning all four games, but lost the battle
in the semi-finals. Thank you to their coaches Mr. Ryley, Mr. Drew, Ms. Bishop
and Ms. Wamboldt.

Last Sunday was our third week of Chase the
Ace. This fundraiser is in conjunction with the SPCA. Mr. Greg Johannesen won
$250. This event featured a “Dog Show and More Show”. It was a wonderful
success with more than 25 pets taking part. Thank you to our two judges for
this event. Ms. Angela Boyd-Martyn, owner of the Animal Health Care Centre
judged this event along with French Immersion teacher, Heather Moss.Ms. Jessica Couture won the Dog Show and More
Show door prize of a $50 gift certificate from the Humber Valley Vet Clinic. We
would also like to thank the Animal Health Care Centre for the many prizes they
donated.

We will continue to “Chase the Ace” this
Sunday night from 6:30-8:30 pm. Tickets are 3 for $5. In conjunction with this
project, we are hosting an open mic night featuring Emma Peckford and friends.
Student admission is $2 and adult admission is $5. There will be prizes
awarded.

The chamber choir, accompanied by Mr. Graham,
is singing this afternoon at the Seniors’ Complex Bungalows.

The Student Leadership Council has finished
their collection for Stocking for Seniors. They are still collecting items for the
Fire Fighters’ Toy Drive and the Food Bank Christmas Food Drive. The deadline
for these items is Monday

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Congratulations to Cole Boyd-Martyn who won gold
medal at the Tae Kwon Do Tournament last weekend.

Congratulations to Natalie Parsons who
participated in the 2015 Body Quest Heats and Finals Invitational that took
place in St. John’s last weekend. Natalie participated in five separate
categories for under swimmers 12.

CLASS NEWS

The junior kindergarten classes really
enjoyed singing in the Christmas concert. They were all so happy to see Santa
on Monday. This week they are making Christmas crafts and learning about the
true meaning of Christmas.

Mme. Foley’s Kindergarten French Immersion
class are working on their reindeer pastels in art. They were excited to sing
“Gentil Père Noël” in the Christmas concert for their family on Thursday night.

Mrs. Hodder’s Kindergarten English class had
a great time at the Christmas concert. The students are doing more, fewer and
the same as in math. They are also making Christmas crafts. They transplanted
some of their seedlings from the Little Green Thumbs Program.

Mme. Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class has
been working on addition and subtraction in math. They have been exploring with
manipulatives and games.They have been
talking about the sense of touch.The
students are thinking about Christmas and the difference between needs and
wants.

Mrs. George’s grade one English class really
enjoyed their Christmas concert last night. They are doing subtraction stories
in math this week and made some lovely Christmas crafts. The star of the week
is Logan.

Ms. Park’s grade two class is doing Christmas
crafts this week. They are doing a fun little writing activity called “If Santa
was stuck in my chimney...”. The class enjoyed taking part in the Christmas
concert last night.

Mme. O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion
class is working on the rough drafts for their original Clifford stories. They
are working on addition and subtraction in math. They were very excited to
showcase their hard work on Thursday night at the concert.

Mme. Moss’ grade three, four and five French
Immersion class is writing twelve days of Christmas notes to each other. The
class will share their notes before Christmas vacation.

Ms. Horner’s grade three and four class finished
their units on addition and subtraction. They are writing Christmas stories and
can’t wait to share them with each other. The grade four students have finished
their read aloud book “To the Top of Everest” and are discussing the dreams
they have for their future.

Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class had
a lot of fun in language class this week reviewing the parts of speech with
“Mad Libs” activities. The stories were so funny they almost fell out of their
seats. The students are looking forward to all the fun activities leading up to
Christmas vacation. They boys played in the Tiny Titans Tournament last
weekend. The team won their first four games and lost in the semi-finals. The class is busy planning the Tree Trimming
social taking place this Saturday.

Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high to level two class
was busy this week preparing for the Christmas concert. The grades seven to
nine students are busy working on novel studies in language arts. The English
1201 and 2201 students are focusing on different types of media and visuals.

COMING UP...

The Knights of Columbus is sponsoring a
skating party on December 15th.

Our school will host a pancake breakfast and
pyjama day on December 17th.

School closes for kindergarten to level two on
December 18th at 2:50 pm with after school program running until 5
pm.